Oi loikes the purdy loits oi does," they would mutter as the newly-built Metro bridge would frown distastefully like the new owner of a trendy townhouse who opens his curtains to find his new neighbours have cars and fridges in their garden, and more satellite dishes than the international space station.

I am distastefully attentive to the smell of cattle crammed into the metal cages on the semi-trailers passing by; to the dust which has clogged my nose and caused it to bleed, and to the concern for my car tyres on the rocky, uneven surface over the next 21 kilometres to the family's house.

Nine essays grace the fourth and final volume celebrating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, which was founded in 1909 to keep up with Protestant scholarship and to counter the scholarship coming out of such institutions as the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, which the Vatican found distastefully avant-garde.

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